According to the RSP880 datasheet at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/asr-9000-series-aggregation-services-routers/datasheet-c78-733763.html it seems like the only supported 5th gen card is the 8HG, not the 20HG.
To explicitly negate the shutdown node, which I suspect is a leaf of type "empty" - which is why <shutdown>false</shutdown> doesn't work, you'd need to send the node with a delete function, something like:<shutdown xmlns:nc="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:ne...
NCS540 is built on Jericho Qumran-AX with 3GB of packet buffer, as compared to the ASR920 that has around 10-12MB or something the like, so that should not be a problem. See for example https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/apjc/docs/2019/pdf/B...
Yeah bug maybe. Having not worked with this device, I was thinking if there are some kind of "CPRI" mode, where all ports are configured as CPRI ports instead of Ethernet ports, maybe here are some other hw-module command to toggle CPRI/Ethernet mode...